Door holder



Nov. 9, 1937. R. HORNUNG 2,098,783

DOOR HQLDER I Filed Nov. 5, 1936 If Rgi. WD -7 I NTQ Patented Nov. 9,1937 I um- D STATES PATENT oFFicE.

1', "a v DOOR; HOLDER Ralph Hornung, Detroit, Mich.

Application November 1936, Serial No. 109,247

1 Claim.

"This invention relates to a door stop or holder forholdinga swingingdoor, particularly a garage door, inopen'position, and an object of theinvention' is'toprovide-a device for the purpose ""whichmaybemanufactured at avery low cost and the construction of which is suchasto facilitate'its manipulation in use, it being such that the brace orprop-member thereof-may be dropped from any elevated position intocontact with the drivewayand"inay'swing freely in any direction tofollow the swinging movement of the door and be brought thereby intobracing position to hold the door open.

A further object is to provide an arrangement 15 whereby such brace orprop may be swung upwardly from any operative position into which it mayhave been lowered, and then interlocked in such up position with themember for pivotally attaching the prop to the door, to hold the prop 20in elevated inoperative position.

It is also an object to provide a bracket plate for attaching the deviceto the door, said bracket being arranged to form an abutment for theupper end of the prop when in lowered position 25 and holding the dooropen; and further, to provide certain other new and useful features inthe construction, arrangement and combination of parts, all ashereinafter more fully set forth and particularly pointed out in theappended claim,

30 reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 isa perspective view of the device in operative position upon a door;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device and 35 showing in dotted linesthe prop or brace in inoperative position;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. 2 with the pivot staple in sectionand showing the prop in dotted lines, swung upwardly into inoperativepo- 40 sition;

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the lower end of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 5 is a front elevation similar to Fig. 2 showing the prop member ininoperative position and 45 swung laterally to a position opposite thatshown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

As shown in Fig. 1 the present device is illustrated as applied to aswinging door I which is hinge connected to the vertical side of a door50 opening to swing outwardly over the usual concrete driveway in frontof the door opening, the door illustrated, being a garage door.

The device embodying the present invention comprises a bracket plate 2formed of sheet metal 55 which plate is provided with a plurality ofholes in the plate Zflan'd secured firmly to the plate byriv'eti'ng downor otherwise fastem-ngthe ends of the legs within said openings in theplate-, A prop or brace member 8, preferably formed of bar stock havinga rectangular cross section, is

pivotally attached at its upper end to the loop or staple 5 by turningthe upper end of this bar backwardly into parallelism with the mainstraight portion of the prop to form a longitudinal slot 9 through whichthe loop or staple 5 extends, the end of the bar being bent toward thestraight run of the bar into contact with the lower side thereof toclose the lower end of the slot 9.

Preferably the loop or staple 5 is round in cross section and as itsouter closed end is curved as at 6, the prop 8 may be swung to anydesired position upon this loop or staple, and as the staple extendsthrough the slot 9 of the prop,

said prop may be moved endwise upon the staple. Because the staple is ofmuch greater width than the width of the prop, the prop may be turnedupwardly from any down position in which it may be, and then by sliding,it longitudinally through the loop the upper end of the prop may beengaged with or beneath the opposite side of the loop or with thebracket plate 2 and will thus be held in an elevated position. When theprop is swung downwardly upon the loop 5 to engage the concrete drivewayat its lower end and brace the door in open position, said prop mayslide 40 upwardly upon the loop 5 to engage its upper end within theangle between the plate 2 and its flange 4, said flange thus forming anabutment to take the end thrust of the prop.

Because of the slotted connection of the prop 8 with the loop 5, theprop may be swung upon the loop into any desired position about the axisof the curved outer end 6 of the loop and then may be swung upwardly andmoved endwise to engage the upper closed end of the prop beneath anopposite side of the loop as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, to lock the prop ininoperative position, and also as shown in Fig. 3 the prop may be swungupwardly from a position extending outwardly from the bracket 2, andthen moved endwise to engage its closed end with the bracket plate andthus lock the propin inoperative position.

Because the prop has a free swinging movement upon its pivotalconnection or loop 5, when the door is opened and the prop is droppedwith its free end in contact with the pavement fromrany elevatedposition in which it may be, it will drag along the pavement, followingthe path of swinging movementof the door without hindrance to suchmovement and when the door has reached its fully open position, the propwill be in the proper position to hold the door open and its upper endwill engage the stop flange l of the bracket to take the end thrust ofthe prop. In like man ner the prop, no matter in what direction it mayextend from the loop 5, may be swung upwardly and then by a shortendwise movement of the prop will be extended through the loop until theloop engages the outer end of the slot, 9 with the closed end of theprop extending through the loop to hold the prop interlocked with theloop and in elevated position;'the weight of the prop tending to moveitv downwardly and hold the prop in elevated position. 7

A device for the purpose, which is of very simple construction is thusprovided and is of such construction that it is strong and durable andnot liable to get out 0! order, there being no necessity for extra partsto provide forthe locking of the prop or brace in inoperative position.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

, abut at its slotted end said abutment flange which A device for thepurpose described including a bracket member adapted to be secured tothe inner face of a swinging door adjacent its outer end and lowercorner, a horizontally disposed loop having spaced apart side legs andan outer curved end connecting said legs, said loop being secured at theends of its legs to said bracket, and a prop member of extended lengthhaving a longitudinal slot adjacent its upper end through which slotsaid loop extends for pivotally, attaching said prop to said door andfor permitting lateral movement of 7 said prop along said loop aroundsaid curved end thereof to extend outwardly from said door-radially fromsaid bracket with its iree end in engagement with the surface over whichthe door swings and follow the path of swinging movement of the door,said'prop being movable longitudinally by reason of the engagement ofsaid loop with said slot, to permit said prop to' be swung upwardly andthen moved endwise to engage its slotted end within said loop and holdsaid prop in inoperative position, said braoket being provided with anabutment flange exten ing outwardly over and in spaced relation tosaidlloco-whereby said prop when in operative position to hold said door inopen position, will;

flange will take the thrust of said prop.

RALPH M651;

